The Fourth Edition of this internationally bestseller details the quick and easy way to master the basics of project management. Using a lively, conversational style, project management gurus Mickey Rosenau and Gregory Githens equip readers with fundamental principles and "tested-in-the-trenches" techniques for managing projects in any type of organization. They arm readers with easy-to-use tools for resolving any technical, mechanical, or personnel problem that may arise over the course of a project and break project management down into twenty-two chronological steps. Extensively revised and updated, this Fourth Edition examines the role of integration in project planning, risk-and-issues management, virtual teams, new theories, project management offices, and more! Successful Project Management, Fourth Edition is an ideal primer for students and an indispensable quick reference for experienced professionals.
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A successful blueprint for getting projects done on schedule, under budget, and according to specifications—every time!
This Fourth Edition of the internationally bestselling guide to project management provides project managers-in-training, product developers, and team leaders with a quick and easy way to master the basics of project management.
Using a lively, conversational style, project management guru Mickey Rosenau and Gregory Githens equip you with a set of fundamental principles and "tested-in-the-trenches" techniques for managing projects in virtually any type of organization. He also arms you with original, easy-to-use tools for resolving any technical, mechanical, or personnel problem that may arise over the course of a project.
To make the complex discipline of project management easy to understand and master, Rosenau and Githens break it down into twenty-two chronological steps, grouped into five phases or processes—from defining project goals and planning the work to leading the team, monitoring progress, and completing the project.
Extensively revised to reflect the latest trends in the field, this Fourth Edition features completely new material on the role of integration in project planning and risk-and-issues management, as well as updated and revised coverage on such topics as the process view, virtual teams, new theories and practices of motivation, the quality view, project management offices, and more!
Successful Project Management, Fourth Edition is an ideal primer for students and an indispensable quick reference for experienced project managers, team leaders, and new product developers.
About the Author
MILTON D. ROSENAU, Jr. is well known in both project management and product development circles. He is the author of a number of successful books, including The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development and Successful Product Development (both published by Wiley).
GREGORY D. GITHENS has more than twenty years of experience as a project and program manager, practitioner, consultant, and trainer. He held membership in the core team for both the 2000 and 2004 versions of PMI's PMBOK Guide. He is the cofounder of the new product development specific interest group within PMI and was a member of the editorial advisory board for PMNetwork magazine from 1995 to 2003.
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Best Basic Project Management Book for Product Development,
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This review is from: Successful Project Management: A Step-by-Step Approach with Practical Examples, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
I've read a number of project management books over the years, and very few of them fit at all in a product development environment. This book fits and matches product development very well. In fact, in my opinion, it is the best basic project management book on the market currently for application in product development. This shouldn't be a surprise though since Mickey Rosenau understands project management practice in the field of product development. Beware of the other authors who claim that they understand product development and then apply a traditional approach to project management. Project management in product development is different, and a traditional approach to project management doesn't work in product development. Stay away from the traditional management approach and get this book instead.
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I had known nothing about the project management before reading this book and it really helps me for orientation in the field.
It is maybe a little bit chippy and from enterprise point of view (which I am not used to), but it helped me to understand the basics.
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This review is from: Successful Project Management: A Step-by-Step Approach with Practical Examples, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
Excelent Book. Direct to the point. I have recommended this one to other project managers and they agreed with my opinion.Easy to get, easy to undertand. Best Regards Rolando Ramos
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Project success doesn't just "happen"; it comes from people using commonsense tools that are suited for the special nature of projects and applied in an organizational environment that accepts discipline and rigor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct nonlabor, computer project management software, incremental documentation, delivering organization, network diagram schedule, triple constraint, consuming organization, qualitative matrix, finish node, successful project management, good project managers, virtual project team, balancing competing demands, more effective resources, effective project manager, project risk management, one project manager, favorable variance, work packages, many project managers, project baseline, new product development projects, dummy activity, product scope, resource leveling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Performance Target, End of Month, Theoretical Study, Cost Target, Project Cost Report Project Example Task, Schedule Target, Labor Cost, Project Management Institute, Legend Activity, Microsoft Project, Slips Schedule Due, Tech Labor, Unforeseen Causes Projects Both Stay, Conduct Experiment, Department of Defense, Document Design, Original Schedule Project, United States, Variances Due New!
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Project success doesn't just "happen"; it comes from people using commonsense tools that are suited for the special nature of projects and applied in an organizational environment that accepts discipline and rigor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
direct nonlabor, computer project management software, incremental documentation, delivering organization, network diagram schedule, triple constraint, consuming organization, qualitative matrix, finish node, successful project management, good project managers, virtual project team, balancing competing demands, more effective resources, effective project manager, project risk management, one project manager, favorable variance, work packages, many project managers, project baseline, new product development projects, dummy activity, product scope, resource leveling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Performance Target, End of Month, Theoretical Study, Cost Target, Project Cost Report Project Example Task, Schedule Target, Labor Cost, Project Management Institute, Legend Activity, Microsoft Project, Slips Schedule Due, Tech Labor, Unforeseen Causes Projects Both Stay, Conduct Experiment, Department of Defense, Document Design, Original Schedule Project, United States, Variances Due New!
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- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project on page 118, and page 201
- Project Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Harvard Business Review on page 9
- Successful Product Development: Speeding from Opportunity to Profit by Milton D. Rosenau in Front Matter
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) by Project Management Institute on page 9
- Successful Product Development: Speeding from Opportunity to Profit by Milton D. Rosenau in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strategic Software Engineering: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Fadi P. Deek on page 242
- Introducing and Managing Academic Library Automation Projects (Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection) by John W. Head on page 109
- Bringing Technology and Innovation into the Boardroom: Strategy, Innovation and Competences for Business Value by European Institute for Technology and Innovation on page 371
- Frameworks for IT Management: An Introduction (ITSM Library) by Jan Van Bon (Chief Editor) on page 217
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